The Minsk Ceasefire Has Failed. What Now For Ukraine?

February 22, 2015 12:00 PM

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The Greek drama of the last week has distracted attention from a far bigger issue. The ceasefire agreed at Minsk a week ago has failed.

The Minsk agreement imposed an “immediate and full” bilateral ceasefire across the whole of Donetsk and Luhansk from 15th February. But the ceasefire was immediately breached. In fact fighting never stopped. It is a ceasefire on paper only.